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PORTABLE BUILDING."

110.435,112. Patented Aug.26,1890

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THOMAS R. OARSKADON, OF KEYSER, TEST VIRGINIA.

.PORTABLE BUILDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 435,112, dated August 26, 1890.

` Application filed January 14, 1889'. Serial No. 296,359. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LTHoMAs R. CAnsKADoN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Keyser, in the county of Mineral and State of Vest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Buildings, of which the following is a specication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain improvements in the construction of frame orwooden houses; and it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts, as will appear from the following description and accompanying illustrations, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of one of my houses complete. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a house. Fig. 3 is a part side elevation and part sectional view thereof. Fig. et is a crosssectional section of a detail part thereof. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation thereof. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of one of the rafters. Fig. 7 is a detail vertical section of the hollow studding for reception of the sash weight and cord. Fig. 8 is a cross-section of the same, taken through the line no on Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a detail plan view of the mortised ridge-pole. Fig. 10 is a detail plan view of the connection between the rafters Z) and the strip c. Fig. 1l is a crosssectional view of the tongue-and-groove connection of the clapboards.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide the framing A, which comprises the sills u a, the uprights a', and the upper horizontal frame or side and end pieces d2 a3. Upon the side pieces a2 a2 rest the rafters b of the roof B at their lower ends, the upper en ds con verging and resting upon the ridge strip or bar b. These rafters are gained or mortised, as at h3 b3, near their lower ends, as also at their upper ends, to receive and t them to the corner edges of the ridge strip or bar b', andto receive the lower ends of each a series of strips c is fastened upon the sidepieces The gains or mortises b2 at the upper ends of the rafters h, it will be seen, are made in their side edges, while the gains or mortises b3 thereof near their lower ends are in one side edge of each rafter; also,in the ridge strip or barb are made mortises h4, indenting the upper corner edges of said strip or bar,

and into these mortises are received the up per portions of the rafters directly opposite the gains or mortises b2, thus effectingahalving and halving connection between them at their points of contact, permitting the meeting` of the upper converging ends of said rafters.

In the sides of the rafters Z) are longitudinal grooves or mortises b5 to receive the ends of the sheathing', in practice sandwiched between said rafters as it is put in position to form the' roof. It will be observed that the strips c are interspaced, as at c, in order to receive between their ends the rafters,while, as before noted, one end of each of said stripsv is received int-o the side of the rafter.

O C is the clap or weather boarding, which, it will be seen, is in short pieces C2 O2, which at their ends are let into vertical gains or inortises in upright partition-like strips or studding C3 C3, distributed and secured by mortise and tenon and pegs or pins at regu lar intervals or spaces throughout the sides, as also inthe ends of the structure. These weather or clap boarding pieces or boards C2 are, it will be observed, reduced in the direc tion of their lengths at their upper edges, as at d, which edges are received into vgains or mortises d in their lower edges, said pieces or boards thus having a tongue-and-groove like connection with each other. The studding or partition G3 at each side of the windows is hollow to provide for the reception of sash cords and weights used for vthe windows. Uppei-story windows D, of smaller dimensions than the lower ones, may be provided, or windows of the saine or approximate dimensions may be put in, if desired.

rlhe ioor A consists of planks tongued and grooved together in the usual way of laying ioors in houses, the edges of the boards next to the studding being gained or notched to t the same to the studding.

In the upper side and end pieces or timbers as a3 are series of vertical openings or apertures f, which terminate into enlargements f opening through the lower side of the said pieces or timbers, and in the under side of said timbers are longitudinal mortises or channels f2, which receive the upper edges of the top boards or pieces C3 of the weatherboarding.

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E E are bolts having nuts applied to their upper ends and inserted in the openings or apertures ff of the timbers or pieces G3 and passed through nuts g, seated or let into the 5 enlargements f of the said apertures or openings f. These bolts, which are convex or rounded on their lower ends, bear at said ends in cups h, secured at their bottoms upon the upper convex surfaces of semi-elliptic springs to e', bearing at their ends upon the upper edges of the top boards or pieces C?. This arrangement, it will be seen, permits the expansion and contraction of the board under the action of the sun and weather to prevent the bulging or warping vof the boards, which would consequently distort them (the boards) out of shape. The gable ends of the structure are also similarly boarded up as the sides and ends proper, as at G G.

2o Secured to the inner side of the studding at an elevated point are longitudinal edgewise-disposed pieces or supports j, upon the upper edges of which are supported planks H, which form the floorin g of the upper story.-

" In the inner sides of opposite studding are vertical gains or mortises m, which are designed to receive the vertical edges or ends of boarding forming the partition-wall E between and dividing the house into rooms.

3o From the foregoing it will be observed that all the various parts are put together, and

the details of construction or erecting the house are carried out without the use of nails or like fastenin gs, also without requiring great care in the adjustment or fitting of the same, as well as rendering the house highly portable.

Having thus fully described my invention,

, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters l. The portable house having the upper edge of its top clapboard fitting in a mortised or gained timber of the framing, in combination with the holding-bolts inserted in an opening in said timber and having a yielding or flexible bearing upon said clapboard, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a portable house, the combination, with the clapboarding and the timber or piece having a gain or mortise receiving the 'upper edge of said clapboarding, of the semielliptic spring having its ends resting upon said edge of the clapboarding and connected at its upper central part to a cup, and the bolt inserted into an opening or aperture of said timber and bearing in said cup at its convex or rounded lower end, substantially as shown and described.

3. The portable house having the roof timbers or rafters provided with gains or mortises in the under side near their upper ends facing mortises or gains in the ridge strip or bar, said rafters also vhaving in one side near their lower ends mortises or gains which receive one end of interspaced bars or strips secured to the upper side pieces or bars ou the framing and between which rest said-rafters, substantially as shown and described.

4. The portable house comprising thefram ing, the' clap or weather boarding having a spring-bearing and bolt-connection with the upper side and end pieces of said framing, the

opposite studding having vertical mortises or gains forthe partition-wall between therooms, the ridge strip or bar having mortises or gains in its corner edges, the interspaced bars secured upon said framing, and the rafters having in their lower sides near the upper and lower ends mortises or gains and in one side mortises or gains, substantially as shown and described.

Signed this 14th day of January, 1888.

TnoMAs R. cARsKnnoN.

i Vitnesses:

EDGAR Il. DAVIS, FANNIE L. TIMMoNs. 

